John Ortberg Quotes

The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.

John Ortberg

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• Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Confidence

• Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Eye
  • Healthy
  • Beholder

• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Think
  • You
  • Stop

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • America

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Want
  • Philosophy

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

  

  Usher
  • Believe
  • Dreams
  • Achieve

• When I said I could beat Alexander Gustafsson in a standup fight, people laughed at me. They thought, 'No way.' But I believe in what I'm seeing every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Believe
  • Day

• My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dad

• I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Dad
  • Powerful

• Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Desire
  • Movement
  • Western

• Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • People
  • Hate
  • Lovers

• When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Movie
  • Same

• I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

  

  Leigh-Allyn Baker
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Growing

• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Value
  • Awareness

• I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

  

  Francesco Carrozzini
  • People
  • Long
  • Done

• About President Bush's stand against condoms, condoms will not protect you from AIDS. So to just throw a bunch of condoms over to Africa and say, here, we're helping you with AIDS, is just going to further the spread of AIDS over there.

  

  Christine O'Donnell

• Oh I wish that I could paint again. Paint is an instrument without which I cannot survive for any length of time. Whenever I even think of gray, green and white, I am overcome with quivers of lust. Then I wish that this war would end and that I might paint again.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Time
  • War
  • Wish

• The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Life
  • God
  • Inspiration